Quite long free-verse poem about a land inhabited by races of differently-striped people. |
Once there was a land inhabited by green-striped people. To this land came boatloads of a blue-striped race, who proclaimed themselves superior. These blue-striped people seized the lands of the green-striped race and killed those who wouldn’t willingly migrate westward when so ordered. The blue-striped race established farms and cities. In the southern part of this new land, huge tracts of lands were owned by a few rich men. To farm these plantations a race of orange-striped people were brought by force from their native land and owned by the blue-striped race, who felt free to whip, rape, and sell off their family members at will. This treatment of the green-striped and the orange-striped races by the blue-striped race continued unabated for several centuries. Then a big fight broke out between two segments of the blue-striped people in which the winners declared the orange-striped race now to be free. Ahh, but the former slave owners among the losing blue-striped segment were far too clever. With new laws they enslaved these freed orange-striped people and kept them in their rightful inferior place. This continued so for another hundred years. Meanwhile, the blue-striped race was settling the entire West until they controlled the land from coast to coast. Those annoying green-striped people were largely exterminated, with the remnants imprisoned in unwanted lands too poor for use by the blue-striped people. At the same time, pink-striped workers were imported from a faraway land to build the railroads uniting the land. Of course, the blue-striped race considered them inferior and unworthy of any rights under the law. Previously, the blue-striped race had coveted the land to the southwest long owned and inhabited by an inferior race of purple-striped people. Through wars the desired lands were taken from this undeserving purple-striped race. The blue-striped race was happy with what it had accomplished through genocide and cruelty. The blue-striped race had uncontested control over this land for nearly four centuries. Then the inferior races grew somewhat bolder and demonstrated to acquire their rights under new laws. The blue-striped race was filled with people who fought against losing control and did all in their power to delay their loss of power. One political party became representative of these angry blue-striped people, many of whom were old and unwilling to welcome change. The day came when all their party’s tactics to deny voting rights, to steal elections by Gerrymandering districts, to threaten to build walls to keep out purple-striped people, to exclude whole races of foreigners, to be the party of obstruction of progress, and to whip up fear and fuel racism among their supporters finally failed. They were overtaken by the future, a future they hated because the blue-striped race was doomed to lose their majority control of the land they had dominated for centuries. And they feared the consequences. What would be the blue-striped peoples’ fate when the orange-, purple-, and pink- striped races gained control of this land? Would these races seek revenge for past horrible treatment at the hands of the blue-striped race, or would these races prove to be far more interested in fairness and justice than the blue-striped race ever was? This is a story still in progress. Please check out my ten books: http://www.amazon.com/Jr.-Harry-E.-Gilleland/e/B004SVLY02/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 |